It appears the networks are waiting until they can confirm the margin is not tight enough to merit a recount, rather than their normal statistical basis for calling a winner.
Indeed. And we know why this is. It is sad that the incumbent is such a cry baby and sore loser that this is happening. Meanwhile, Trumposhere on the internet throws uranium into the conspiracy reactor.
The fact that Fox has not walked back their call on Arizona is telling. All of the networks are staying in place, deferring completely to state electoral authorities, and trying to avoid becoming part of the story. Unfortunately, even that paralysis is becoming part of the story.
This is such an important point. Go back to 2016 and we woke up the next day with a Democratic house but a GOP controlled senate and Trump, so the narrative was how the Dems blew an election. Yet, their candidate for president won the majority of votes, and in total votes case in senate elections for that cycle the dems got more votes and had their senators representing a majority of the country. As a party they had a message supported by the majority, voted on by the majority and yet wielded no effective power at the end.
You need win by the rules of the game, but criticisms of the party and solutions for how to do better need to take that into account. After every election you need to have self-reflection to see where you could have done better, but every cycle the dems get slated for their performance in a way that ignores how severely handicapped the game is.
They should have considered that though. The more this grinds on, with an obvious electoral win, the better for those creating the conspiracy theories and the less a defeat for Trump it appears in a narrative.